Dug Free Week!

This week at Bryce's school is drug free week, as well as other schools I'm told. Every day we have had a different dress up theme. Monday was wear red day, Tuesday camo day, Wednesday cowboy day, Thursday silly sock day, and Friday jersey day. We dressed up everyday so far, but today was by far the cutest. I will post some pics later on. He decided to wear hid blue plaid shirt with jeans, cow print chaps, boots and of course his black cowboy hat! He LOVED it, and was SOOO cute!

Flag Football

Bryce has started flag football this fall. We talked about it and he decided he wanted to play. He is playing through the YMCA and we have 12 boys on our team at Lakeshore. He has had fun practicing and we've had fun watching him although sometimes he gets bored and we have to have "pep talks" as I laike to call them, lol. We had our first game September 23 at ULM and he played really well. Our last game he did even better. Can't wait for Jace to be old enough to play since we have to hold him the whole time to keep him off the field and out of the way of the boys playing. LOL

Bryce is 4!!

My my how time flies. Isn't that the saying? Well, it's true. I can't believe my oldest, little man is 4 already! It seems like just yesterday I was holding him in my arms and rocking him in the rocker. He has gotten so big so fast. He will be starting Pre-K this year in August, sniff sniff, breaks mommas heart.

Anyway, enough about my emotions ;)! He wanted a monster trucks party for his birthday this year so we got a big monster trucks cake and decorations and had it at Excalibur again this year. He loved it so much last year we decided to do it again. This year was no different, he had a blast as well as most of the other kids. I think some of the parents had fun to. He got everything from clothes to movies to a police robot car that transforms and shoots darts (thanks Heather, I will remember when Farrah has a birthday, JK). Anyway, he played and played and played and did not want to leave when it was FINALLY time to go. He and Jace didn't even make it home, and they sacked out in the car. It was a great time for all of us and even though he will be a year older, I can't wait to do it again next year.

The Boys Today

     So.. My friend Lindsay tells me I don't blog enough and in truth she is right. I want to keep up but it's so hard to do right now with all I have going on. School is kicking my bootie!! But I wanted to update you on the boys.
     Bryce is all boy as always. He has picked out EVERY toy in the Toys R Us big toy book this year and he drags it around everywhere! He is completely potty trained and has slept in his "big boy bed" in his room with Jace for the last three nights in a row. YEAH!!! Mommy and daddy have their bed back after 3 almost 4 years!! We have started a new routine where we have baths at 7:30 and in the bed by 8:30. If theres a movie they want to watch great, but bed by 8:30 it is. So far it has worked!! Bryce is almost four and it breaks my heart to think he's growing up soo fast. He is 39 pounds now and he's up to my hip in height, however tall that is!! LOL!
     Jace is almost two and yet again my heart breaks when I think about how fast he has grown. Before long I'll be writing about how he will be driving it seems. Anyway, he is 28 pounds now and he is up to Bryce's shoulder in his height. Shaun keeps saying how he thinks he's small for his age but I think he's probably just right. ;) He has become more active over the last few months and he's getting where he is all about tractors. Who would have thunk it? Wonder where that came from? He is still a little sweetheart, kisses all the time. Last night after bath time he had to play with daddy and everytime Shaun would blow in his face he would grab Shaun's cheeks and pull him to him for a big 'ole smack!! He is too funny and sweet!
     Just a quick update on the boys and how they are growing so fast!! A glimpse into my beautiful life!
~Luv

Bryce's Ear's

Today is Halloween, and what are we doing? Well, not the usual activities that most people would be. No, we are at the ENT!! AGAIN!! But we chose to use a different doctor from the one who put their tubes in. If you have read my previous post then you know we had tubes placed in both boys ears in April and have been having trouble. Well Bryce woke up from his nap at MiMi's house yesterday late SCREAMING!! This is not his usual behavior so I was a little concerned when I couldn't get him to stop crying. He kept telling us his ear hurt and pointing to his left ear. Well that's the ear that the tube has been stopped up in and he has had an infection in it so I thought it was just regular pain. Apparently not. I ended up taking him in to the ENT today where I was informed that my sweet boy has MOLD yes MOLD growing in his ear. WHAT?! I know, gross isn't it? The tube is still stopped up and there is still fluid behind it, oh and his other tube in his right ear, well it's come out completely. Sitting in his ear canal. So we start a different antibiotic and different ear drops today. Jace will be coming to the ENT on Thursday for his check up and to get the results of hid hearing test we had done about a week ago, both boys did. Bryce's hearing seems to be fine but he has so much fluid on his left ear his hearing is diminished by 20-35% says the doc. I'm so frustrated with the tubes I could just SCREAM!! Anyway, we also ended up doing xrays of his sinuses and we will see where we go from there. Please keep my lil men in your prayers!!
~Luv

Bryce's Adventures in Potty Training!

So we have been trying it seems forever to get Bryce to use the potty. That effort hasn't been going to well. For the longest time he was soooo scared of the potty. Even his little potty we bought, just his size. It was like trying to get him to sit down on a seat full of glass. He would literally SCREAM and cry. I couldn't understand it. So for a while we just gave up.
Everyone kept saying he'll do it when he's ready, and I kept thinking well what about when I'm ready, doesn't that count? Apparently not! This week, on Tuesday I think, he decided that was the day! I'd been putting him on "big boy undies" for a couple of weeks and today was no different, big boy undies it was.
All of a sudden I hear feet running down the hall, the bathrooom door fly open, his stepping stool being moved, and then............ NOTHING! I thought, O man what is going on? So I jump up, take off for the bathroom, and there he is standing on his stepping stool in front of the potty spraying everything I think EXCEPT in the potty! LOL! But I was so excited that he had tried I rewarded him with a KitKat and a big hug. Next time I had to direct him a little to shoot for the potty which he did without problems!
Now he thinks everytime he heads for the bathrrom there's gonna be a KitKat reward after he leaves. I think I'd probably give him a whole bag of 'em if he'd poo there too LOL!
Anyway, speak of the devil he's come in here and now he's showing me a video of a combine cutting corn on the Ipod that he thinks is "pretty cooool". He is such a BOY, and this is MY BEAUTIFUL LIFE!
~Luv~

Bryce is here!!

Our sweet little boy arrived today, and he could not be more precious. We are ecstatic. My water broke while momma and I were eating at Olive Garden, yes this really did happen. I didn't realize what it was at first but then after talking with Dr. Pennebaker's nurse I was instructed to go straight to L&D. I arrived there around 3:30 or 4:00 and it was confirmed my water had broken. I was admitted and Pitocin was started. I finally reached Shaun after many call attempts and explained that I was in the hospital in labor. He didn't seem to believe me at first though after a few more minutes of me insisting it was true he finally realized I wasn't joking! I finally got my epidural around 1:00 am and then was able to rest comfortably until it was time to push. Bryce made his appearance at 5:24 am after and hour and a half of pushing. All 8lbs 13oz, 19 1/4" of him. LOL. He is so preciuos and we are so blessed.

We're Pregnant!

We found we were pregnant with our first little one in May 2007. It was Memorial Day and I was home alone. Shaun had to work and I happened to get the holiday off. I decided to run some everyday errands since I was home alone. For some reason I decided to buy a pregnancy test while in the store and took it when I got home. To my surprise it was positive. I remember standing in the bathroom and looking at myself in the mirror as I jumped up and down with excitement. Then I quickly stopped jumping not knowing if I would hurt the baby. How funny! I wanted to do something special to tell Shaun but I just couldn't wait until he was off so I went back to the store, lol, and bought a father's day card. It just happened to be that time of year. I placed the test inside and drove from Monroe to Bastrop to his job. I called when I got there and he came out to meet me. When he opened the card, he was really confused at first with it saying happy fathers day, but when he opened it, his face lit up. It was one of the biggest smiles I think I've ever seen him have. He couldn't believe it. I remember him asking if I was serious. Ha, no I was just playing, yeah right. Anyway, we did the same thing to break the news to his parents and to my mom. I had to tell her over the phone however and give her her card later. They were all plesantly surprised and so happy for us. Little Coleman #1 is on the way!